Thoughts Journal

Thoughts regarding my Children's short stories

First of all let me re-iterate what I put on my webpage regarding my mission statement: To educate people in regards to disabilities. People with disabilities are just like everyone else, with a unique twist added on.

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This can be found at: http://meliamadness.com/

What this means is that in all my children's stories there is a message embedded within the story regarding children and/or adults with disabilities. This is meant as an education tool for teachers as well as parents to use as a way to discuss what children may encounter in the real world.

I am a disabled person who has cerebral palsy and feel that as I was growing up there were no real role models or even fiction books that dealt with living with a disability and how classmates should treat the classmate with the disability.

There was a lot and still is a lot of literature and non-fiction reference books and material on the topic of how to raise a child with a disability and or any condition that is abnormal from the norm of society. There certainly was no books on how to live with the condition or how to deal with the name-calling and other teasing that goes on out of lack of education.

This is why I dedicate a portion of my writing time to writing stories for publication on the topic of educating children through fiction on the treatment of those with disabilities.

I am currently working on a third story about a boy that has cerebral palsy and a seizure disorder (not far from the likes of myself) that leads a normal life despite his struggles with the occasional setbacks from the seizure disorder and the much needed surgeries to lengthen the tendons in his leg so that he can walk better. He of course like myself will always have a limp when walking and an arm that will be somewhat useless and slightly bent no matter how hard he tries to straighten it. But the message here is that he gets by and lives a somewhat normal life among kids that have no known disabilities.